Top 5 most popular fact-checks for September 2014
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Beer, deficits, businesses, jobs, taxes. A look at our most-clicked items from September.
The irony of President Barack Obama, Nobel Prize winner and putative anti-war candidate, launching extensive airstrikes in Syria, has led to comparisons with President George W. Bush.
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In a close governor's race, the Republican Party unloads on Charlie Crist's changing his party and changing his positions. We sort out the flips on our Flip-O-Meter.
• PolitiFact Texas reports on the governor's debate between Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis.
• PolitiFact Rhode Island profiles the Providence mayor's race and Buddy Cianci.
• PunditFact looks at Emma Watson's speech to the United Nations.
Greg Abbott considerably outpaced Wendy Davis -- 17 mentions of a reporter's first name to her one, unless we failed to notice a "Peggy" or two in their debate from a Dallas TV studio.
Ahem: Previously checked claims also bubbled up.
A new ad attacks Democrat Charlie Crist for being a flip-flopper. We sort through the issues and rate each one on our Flip-O-Meter.
The close and closely watched political races for govenor and U.S. Senate are hardly the only contests voters will decide in Novbember. What about some of them?
The correct figure would have only amplified her point.
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Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis will debate Tuesday night as they seek to be elected the next Texas governor. PolitiFact Texas reviews their records on the Truth-O-Meter.
• PolitiFact Rhode Island: Previewing the Providence mayoral debate
Dan Patrick and Leticia Van de Putte each swung away in a Dallas debate. We spotted slippery moments.
The debate about the air strikes in Syria continued as pundits compared President Barack Obama to President George W. Bush and wondered why Congress is currently in recess.